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South West Coast Path walk
I parked in the same place I did on Saturday and walked north(ish) towards Bude – taking as many opportunities as possible to make images.
The light was particularly good as the weather was overcast – so no hard shadows but it did mean the distance was a bit hazy.
First order is the day was find somewhere for breakfast with a great view. With this is mind I found an out of the way drop in the cliff down to a spot – out of the wind but where the main sound was the crash of the waves.
The plastic box is an up-cycled cake box. Breakfast was home baked wholemeal bread with cheese spread and homemade plum jam. Of course I brewed fresh coffee.
The biscuits (Oreo’s and breakfast biscuits), apple and fried rice is for lunch or snacks. In the box is also milk, curtesy of the hotel, a vegetable stock cube and soy sauce.
On the way out
The Storm Tower
Bude
On the way back
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This is the view from my lunch stop
Here is lunch – left over egg fried rice from last night.
And because it is Christmas – a mince pie with my coffee.
Now I have to walk back to the car at Widemouth Bay.
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Rain on the shed
There is no chance today to get out for a walk – I have collected some twigs and sticks, dried them out and was going to test my twig stove with them today, soot, smoke everything. But there is too much rain.
I have been reading a John Hedgecoe photography book, all film no digital it is that old, but it is still relevant, just looking at his photos helps with mine.
I wanted to expand my black and white techniques and manipulating contrast. Here is one of the results.
The Silverstone comes from an iOS camera app filter.
Walking today
The route I took today was out near Kirkby Green.
I found a spot out of the wind – after the rain stopped – for lunch. Tinned mushroom soup, buttered sourdough bread and coffee. The smoke was because I used some hexamine solid fuel tablets to heat the soup and water, but once I used them I remembered why they we still in my fuel box several years after I had bought them.
Compared to the Fire Dragon gel fuel the hexamine tablets gave off pungent fumes and left a sooty residue on the mugs and stove. OK for a standby, lasts forever, fuel but not for everyday use anymore. The British Army used it for years and the first outdoors stove I bought when I was at school, from the military surplus department in Millers of Grays, was an army folding cooker which included eight large blocks of hexamine.
